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Helping Educators Use The Web Effectively

Introduction

Site Map

Section 1:
Usability Factors & Rules-of-Thumb for Web Page and Web Site Design

Section 2:
Do Your Own Web Site Usability Testing!

Section 3:
Mini Usability Study of a Web-Based Educational Activity
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Welcome to

Usability of Web-Based
Educational Activities

This Web Site is designed for educators who:

  • Are creating Web-Based Educational Activities for their classrooms and want to be sure usability factors do not get in the way of students effectively using the activity

  • Are using Web-Based Educational Activities created by others and want to evaluate the usability of those activities for possible use in their classrooms

Why Usability?

Usability of Web sites is important whether a site is providing e-commerce, entertainment, or information. Web-Based Educational Activities (often referred to as Web Quests) provide interactive content and information. Thousands of new web sites are appearing on the Internet every day, most of them created by well-meaning people, and many of them created by teachers to enhance their curriculum and lessons. However, creating web pages does not require a degree in web design. Programs to create web pages are fairly inexpensive, and anyone with internet access can easily become a web publisher. Unfortunately, a great deal of the web sites on the internet are created without much, if any, regard for how the people viewing them will actually USE them.

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